Welcome to February

January is over.  It’s February.  That means two things.

First, February is crazy music month for me.  I haven’t started yet, so you are safe from the I-wrote-a-drum-part-on-my-iPad idiocy for now.  Expect those posts to begin either later tonight or tomorrow morning.  I can see by your faces how thrilled you are to be subjected to more of that crap.

Second, the bonus is in so it’s time to start planning vacations!  Plural!  Again!  We’re kinda crazy like that.  Nothing is set in stone, of course.  It’s way to early for anything like that.  The rough draft of a plan is to take the kids some where during their school vacation.  They are going on a trip with their dad during their first week off, so we want to take them on a trip during the second week off.

More recently there have been discussions between my wife and the kids’ father about swapping weeks for grown up get aways.  We will watch the kids for a week while they go away, and they’ll watch the kids for a week while we go away.  I have not been privy to these discussions, but I do know that on Wednesday night my beautiful bride became all consumed with coming up with ideas for what the two of us should do on a week long vacation in the early Autumn.  Far be it from me to disagree, right?  I may be dumb, but I ain’t stupid!

I need to confirm the dates for the Spring trip with the kids.  Once I have that I will book the vacation time at work.  I have started collecting the various documentation I need in order to get a passport.  Hopefully I will be able to submit the passport request paperwork soon.

It’s February.  It’s cold outside.  We’re expecting more snow this weekend.  What better time to start planning a trip or two?